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most citedFoundations of MIMO Radar Detection Aided by Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

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eess.SP2026

Waveform Index Modulation for Backscatter Communications in RIS-Based MIMO Radars

Mehri Nikzad, Luca Venturino, Emanuele Grossi +1

This paper studies a symbiotic system in which a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assists a radar transmitter while conveying information to a reader via backscattering. Th…

eess.SP2026

Direct and Ambient Backscatter Communications with a Dual-Function Radar Transmitter

Yubo Zhang, Luca Venturino, Xiaodong Wang

This work considers a system where a dual-function radar transmitter (source) performs direct communication with a reader while simultaneously enabling ambient backscatter communic…

eess.SP2025★ 1 cited

RIS-Enabled Transmitter Design for Joint Radar and Communication

Emanuele Grossi, Marco Lops, Luca Venturino

Achieving efficient and cost-effective transmit beampattern control for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems is a significant challenge. This paper addresses this by…

eess.SP2025★ 1 cited

Track-before-detect in RIS-aided Integrated Sensing and Communication

Georgios Mylonopoulos, Luca Venturino, Emanuele Grossi +2

This study considers a base station equipped with sensing and communication capabilities, which serves a ground user and scans a portion of the sky via a passive reconfigurable int…

eess.SP2025

STAR-RIS Transceivers: Integrated Sensing and Communication with Pulsed Signals

Hedieh Taremizadeh, Emanuele Grossi, Luca Venturino

This study examines an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) transceiver featuring a simultaneous transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) an…

eess.SP2025

Parameter estimation of range-migrating targets using OTFS signals from LEO satellites

Tong Ding, Luca Venturino, Emanuele Grossi

This study investigates a communication-centric integrated sensing and communication system that utilizes orthogonal time-frequency space (OTFS) modulated signals emitted by low Ea…

eess.SP2025

Integrated Communication and RIS-aided Track-Before-Detect Radar Sensing

Georgios Mylonopoulos, Luca Venturino, Emanuele Grossi +2

This paper investigates an integrated sensing and communication system where the base station serves multiple downlink users, while employing a passive reconfigurable intelligent s…

eess.SP2024★ 4 cited

STAR-RIS-based Pulse-Doppler Radars

Emanuele Grossi, Hedieh Taremizadeh, Luca Venturino

In this study, we consider a pulse-Doppler radar relying on a simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) for scanning a given volume;…

eess.SP2024★ 5 cited

Semi-Blind Multi-Tag Ambient Backscatter Communications Using Radar Signals

Luca Venturino, Emanuele Grossi, Jeremy Johnston +2

In this work, we consider a backscatter communication system wherein multiple asynchronous sources (tags) exploit the reverberation generated by a nearby radar transmitter as an am…

eess.SP2024

Subspace-Based Detection in OFDM ISAC Systems under Different Constellations

Yangming Lai, Musa Furkan Keskin, Henk Wymeersch +3

This paper investigates subspace-based target detection in OFDM integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) systems, considering the impact of various constellations. To meet dive…

eess.SP2023★ 1 cited

Beampattern Design for Transmit Architectures Based on Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

Ciro D'Elia, Emanuele Grossi, Luca Venturino

In this work, we tackle the problem of beampattern design for a transmit system employing a large reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) to redirect radio frequency signals emitt…

eess.SP2023

Beampattern design for radars with reconfigurable intelligent surfaces

Emanuele Grossi, Luca Venturino

We consider a radar architecture where an illuminator composed of few sources is used as a feeder for a (passive) reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), so as to mimic the behav…

cs.IT2023

On the Coexistence of eMBB and URLLC in Multi-cell Massive MIMO

Giovanni Interdonato, Stefano Buzzi, Carmen D'Andrea +3

The non-orthogonal coexistence between the enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) and the ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) in the downlink of a multi-cell massive MIMO sy…

eess.SP2022★ 17 cited

Radar-enabled ambient backscatter communications

Luca Venturino, Emanuele Grossi, Marco Lops +2

In this work, we exploit the radar clutter (i.e., the ensemble of echoes generated by the terrain and/or the surrounding objects in response to the signal emitted by a radar transm…

eess.SP2022★ 3 cited

Subspace-Based Detection and Localization in Distributed MIMO Radars

Yangming Lai, Luca Venturino, Emanuele Grossi +1

In this paper, we consider a distributed multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar which radiates waveforms with non-ideal cross- and auto-correlation functions and derive a nove…

eess.SP2022★ 63 cited

Spatial Diversity in Radar Detection via Active Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

Mohamed Rihan, Emanuele Grossi, Luca Venturino +1

Active reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are a novel and promising technology that allows controlling the radio propagation environment while compensating for the product…

eess.SP2021★ 119 cited

MIMO OFDM Dual-Function Radar-Communication Under Error Rate and Beampattern Constraints

Jeremy Johnston, Luca Venturino, Emanuele Grossi +2

In this work we consider a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) dual-function radar-communication (DFRC) system, which senses multiple spatial directions and serves multiple users…

eess.SP2021★ 243 cited

Foundations of MIMO Radar Detection Aided by Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

Stefano Buzzi, Emanuele Grossi, Marco Lops +1

A reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a nearly-passive flat layer made of inexpensive elements that can add a tunable phase shift to the impinging electromagnetic wave and…

eess.SP2021★ 38 cited

Energy Efficiency Optimization in Radar-Communication Spectrum Sharing

Emanuele Grossi, Marco Lops, Luca Venturino

Energy efficiency, possibly coupled with cognition-based and spectrum-sharing architectures, is a key enabling technology for green communications in 5G-and-beyond standards. In th…

eess.SP2021★ 136 cited

Radar Target Detection aided by Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

Stefano Buzzi, Emanuele Grossi, Marco Lops +1

In this work, we consider the target detection problem in a sensing architecture where the radar is aided by a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), that can be modeled as an a…

eess.SP2019★ 41 cited

Joint Design of surveillance radar and MIMO communication in cluttered environments

Emanuele Grossi, Marco Lops, Luca Venturino

In this study, we consider a spectrum sharing architecture, wherein a multiple-input multiple-output communication system cooperatively coexists with a surveillance radar. The degr…

eess.SP2019

Adaptive detection and localization exploiting the IEEE 802.11ad standard

Emanuele Grossi, Marco Lops, Luca Venturino

In this work, we exploit the sector level sweep of the IEEE 802.11ad communication standard to implement an opportunistic radar at mmWaves and derive an adaptive procedure for dete…

cs.IT2014★ 241 cited

Energy-Efficient Scheduling and Power Allocation in Downlink OFDMA Networks with Base Station Coordination

Luca Venturino, Alessio Zappone, Chiara Risi +1

This paper addresses the problem of energy-efficient resource allocation in the downlink of a cellular OFDMA system. Three definitions of the energy efficiency are considered for s…

cs.IT2009★ 14 cited

Blind user detection in doubly-dispersive DS/CDMA channels

Stefano Buzzi, Luca Venturino, Alessio Zappone +1

In this work, we consider the problem of detecting the presence of a new user in a direct-sequence/code-division-multiple-access (DS/CDMA) system with a doubly-dispersive fading ch…